Author: V. Devarajan
Publication: Organiser
Date: December 26, 2004
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=56&page=30
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa
has hit out at her political opponent Karunanidhi for the twin somersaults
made by him through his inconsistent successive reactions to her order
to arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya Swami Jayandera Saraswati. She laments
that he is resorting to all these with the only intention of besmirching
the fair name of her government. One will readily agree to the first part
of her comment, but in the process of exposing his hypocrisy, she is fraudulently
trying to arrogate for her government a non-existent fair name. She will
disgracefully go down in history as the most sinful and iniquitous ruler
this holy country has ever seen owing to her ghastly resort to a barbaric
act in brutal misuse of governmental power just for the demonstration of
her false virtue of impartiality and whose intention was to outsmart her
political opponent.
Karunanidhi, the unprincipled and
power-crazy politician that he is, can rightly be expected to play any
dirty trick to tarnish the image of his political enemy. But, by this over-enthusiastic
reaction in self-righteousness, this criminal misuse of governmental power
in a devilish violence on a revered Acharya, she has demonstrated that
she has absolutely no respect for the cherished values of this land at
all. She has thus revealed more than her culpability for the nasty game
played on her.
Karunanidhi deserves to be congratulated
for appearing as what he is, having frankly expressed his undisguised glee
over the arrest of the Acharya, true to the demonic hero that he is. His
questioning of the delay in arresting the Acharya goes well with the insincerity
that he alleges in Jayalalithaa's action, which is true if and as she shares
the criminality attributed to the Acharya. He, a self-centred and crafty
politician that he is, did not want the credit of this arrest to go to
her, and hence has picked holes in her self-eulogising vanity and pride
in this action. It is her duplicity that puts her in inconvenience. Also,
there is absolutely no ground for her to bemoan his wild allegation on
the indecent treatment meted out to the Acharya, as he is a proclaimed
defamer of hers. He outsmarted her in her game of outwitting him, establishing
his superiority over her in witchcraft. Karunanidhi is consistent in his
dirty politics whereas Jayalalithaa, with the false mask of principled
politician on her face, failed to truly perform the art. Thus one good
result that has immediately fallen out of this atrocity is the clash between
the mutually hostile co-perpetrators for the spoils thereof.
A still worse category of "public
opinion", who would praise both the gangsters, the competitive bidders
in undignified politics, is the secular elite who are delighted that the
enlightened public of this country is unconcerned about the big hue and
cry being made by the Hindutva forces over the issue, as is demonstrated
by the cold response to the VHP's call for a Bharat bandh. They are people
capable of taking only the demonic and monstrous expressions, which they
call demonstrations, as the public opinion. They have become so benumbed
to finer feelings of noble human existence that they cannot feel the bruised
heart of a Hindu nation that is now under the tyrannical repression by
the so-called secular anti-nation forces.
The Hindu loves peace, and true
to its tradition, expects the rulers to honour the sustaining values. Their
hopes are belied. Forces of adharma are reigning over the country. It is
time for the forces of Dharma to rise up to protect Dharma. This awareness
is the valuable outcome of this happening. Our tradition is that Dharma
is above everything -above State power and above the law. We have to regain
this tarnished glory of Dharma by making sure that the mutts and other
Hindu religious institutions are abodes of Dharma for whose protection
the whole nation will rise up in one voice. It is time that these institutions
should dictate the rule in the country.
Anticipating such a resurgence,
the forces of darkness have started crying wolf that the BJP is going back
to the politics of hard core Hindutva. If the BJP really does it they will
become dear to the nation. It is not that BJP is going back to hard core
Hindutva. Hindutva, out of necessity, is expanding into politics also.
It is an expansion of the dharmic Hindus space in the nation and the shrinking
of the adharmic.
(The writer can be contacted at
IV/90, GCDA Road, Thottakkatukara, Aluva 683 108, Kerala.)
